Austin City Limits kicks off it's 37th season with Mumford & Sons, and celtic rockers Flogging Molly...both performing in the new home for ACL...Saturday at 10.
Filmmaker Ken Burns premieres another excellent documentary on the heels of such classics as The Civil War, The War, and The National Parks...this 3 part project looks at the history of Prohibition, and the lasting effects on the country.
Since the early years of the American Republic, alcohol had been embedded in the fabric of American culture. But by 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year, three times as much as we drink today. To slow the alcolohic scourge, Prohibition was enacted in 1917...
but Americans were about to discover that making Prohibition the law of the land had been one thing; enforcing it would be another...Sunday at 7pm
And for something completely different, check out Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer John Kaplan's journey to fight his cancer - documented through his own photographs as he turns the lens on himself...Not As I pictured sunday at 10pm
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